What’s new in WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager

IBM WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager enable businesses to build and manage web portals. Gartner Research has ranked IBM WebSphere Portal as a leader in the portal software market.

As essential components in numerous IBM Digital Experience offerings, WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager allow your customers a single point of access to a range of services and applications.

With the digital experience suite, IBM aimed to help businesses deliver an unmatched digital experience along with social connectivity. WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager help deliver personalized experiences for each user with better scalability and security for applications. The software suite also enables greater flexibility to deploy new offerings quickly and efficiently. IBM WebSphere Portal Solutions The latest version i.e. WebSphere Portal Version 8.5 is a key release that includes upgrades, fixes and new features. It provides several new additions such as vital social services from IBM Connections, better content syndication and cross version syndication. It also offers managed pages, theme profiles, tagging and rating as well as a single sign on for social networking sites.

In addition, it now offers:

Improved themes

Easily accessible shelf toolbar

Easy portlet creation

Simple upgrade from older versions

Mobile simulator to preview content

Seamless data integration

Search updates

Social rendering

The product is also available in different product editions for both small to mid-size businesses of up to 1000 users as well as for larger companies. This includes Digital Experience Patterns for WebSphere Portal Server and Web Content Manager, and WebSphere Portal Express.